Drama and shaming — the media covers homosexuality between 1912 and 1989

Author: Queer Memory — 16.3. 2021 — Share on Facebook / Copy link

Periodical articles in the official media often copied the view of homosexuality of that time. Whether we look at newspapers from the interwar period, or at the socialist press, we find mainly articles about "perverted" or "sick" people, criminal cases or scandals. Even after homosexuality was decriminalised, it took a long time for educational articles, such as the Czechoslovak article "They Live Among Us" (1973) to appear. This article was an exception in this respect. Most articles at that time depicted USA and the West as a "gay world."

Based on media articles, we learn very little about specific people, their needs, desires or positive examples from their own point of view. We do not hear about their efforts to change the unfair conditions they encountered. The first articles discussing this would only appear in the nineties.


Author: Queer Memory
Published at: 16.3. 2021

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